Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-09
THEE ENGlNEERs, RALL,

 hood of Locomotive Engineers gave it's grand annual ball at CarlPs Opera House last night. The committees who had the affair in charge were at the opera house all the afternoon, but long before that preparations had begun for the occasion. Workmen were busy all day long in getting the decorations put up. When all finished they certainly looked pretty in | the faded glare of the lights before the ball commenced. But when the festivities had | we'll begun the scene was one of joyous en- trancement. The hall was thronged with people, and the stage covered with prone naders and dancers. The decorations were
 very handsome. Away up to the prosce-
 nium, sweeping down high over the heads of
 the merry dancers and finally fastened to
 the first gallery, which all formed hal
 canopy in front of the stage, were streamers
 of red, white and blue. The six private
 boxes were draped with folds of the emblem. | atic flag. Suspended from the boxes were
 beautiful collections of flowers, and on the
 floor which had been put in for the occasion
 over the parquet, on level with the stage,
 close together and against the petition be-
 tween the parquet and parquet circle, were
 set foliage plants, no two of which were alike. On each side of the three entrances tc
 the dancing floor from the parquet circle l were two tall plants which formed an arch
 At the front of the two lower boxes were l two tall aspadistrias, hapked on the other side of the boxes by valuable, splendid dis part of the lower boxes, and also the dress l circle, were portraits, elegantly framed, ot 1 the past chiefs of the Brotherhood 1 of Locomotive Mngineers-S. P. Rand
 G. L. Tucker, F. B. Gates, E. L. Gilbert and Joseph Green. A galaxy of beauty met | tba he al ,,lo frr fr/> l lights on the stage proper. The ceiling was ] 8 mass of red, white and blue flags shaped | into a canopy. At the extreme rear was a large flag 44x35 feet, gracefully hung, draped around colored picture of one of the old locomotives of former days. To the right fish holly, and on the sides were tropical plants entwined with evergreens. All the scenes and wings had been taken down from | their usual places on the stage and set against l the walls. The scene that was visible repre- ! sented the stage as large and cosy parlor. l The floral decorations were by Dickerman | while the remainder of the decorations were | by Bolton 6 Nicely.
 The roll and rumble of carriages to the | opera house, which began at about half past | s, was kept up necessarily until after 10, at which time the seats in the parquet circle ! and many in the first gallery were filled with I ladies and gentlemen, while the boxes with ! their occupants began to attract special at- | tention. Fine concert music by Wheeler & | Wilson's orchestra was given in the hour ! preceding the opening of the dancing. At | half past 10 precisely the grand march began, | led by Hon. John H. Leeds and wife, imme- I diately behind whom came His Excellency Hon. P. o. Lounsbury, Governor of Cennec- ticut, accompanied by Miss Silverthau, daughter of MT. Silverthau, the veteran Chapel street jeweler. Mayor Haines, the mayor of Newark, N. J., was also one of the iooy tho cirr,. a1c ator Martin of Willimantic, Mrs. L. E. Je- rome accompanying. There were over one hundred couples in the grand march. Oc- eupants of the boxes were as follows: Right lower box-Ex-Mayor Holcomb and wife, Miss Nellie Holcomb, Mayor Haines of Newark, N. J., special guest of the order, Hon. John H. Leeds and wife, Joel A. Sper. ry, Mayor York.
 Left lower box-Governor Lounsbury, Hon. George P. Mclean, executive secretary, Senator Coe of Torrington, Hon. Nicholas Staub, Hon. Henry G. Lewis.
 Left upper box-Chief A. c. Hendrick, chief of New Haven fire department; John Henney, jr., superintendent of motive power of the Consolidated road; William H. David son, superintendent Hartford division; Stacy B. Opdyke. superintendent Northampton division; O. M. Shepard, general superin- tendsnt, with ladies.
 Right upper box-Filled with ladies.
 
 McAlister of the Starin line, Chief Small of the New Milford fire department, Hon. N D. Sperry, who occupied one of the boxes, Fire Commissioner Jerome, who was an hon orary member of the committee, Frederick Waldron, Senator Plunkett, Dr. OConaor, who had just come from meeting of the Knights of St. Patrick with reference to their grand ball tonight at Carlls, Oscar Dikeman and wife, MT. and Mrs. G. B. Bunnell, Lieu tenant Howarth, ex Councilman Isaac Wolfe and ladies, ex-Councilman John c. Galla- gher and ladies, ex-Councilman Frank F. Thompson and wife, Noble P. Bishop and Attorney Frank G. Osborn, E. c. Bennett the Misses Cora and Florence Fiske, Contractor B. A. BlaEeslee, Mrs. Payne, Miss Grace Payne, Charles Foster, William A. Foskett, jr., Louis Ryder, Miss Ryder, s. D. Cruttenden, Miss Benjamin w. Gates, the Misses Sadie and Mary E. Gates, Engineer Riley Phillips and wife, train dispatcher Northampton road Frank Gile, MT. and Mrs. Frank B. Gates MT. and Mrs. O. B. Parish, MT. and Mrs. George filling, MT. and Mrs. Harry Byington, the Misses Tessie, Lizzie and Mamie Kennedy, MT. and Mrs. Lawrence, Mount Vernon; MT. and Mrs. Charles Clark, George Corbett, Contractor Edward Redfeld and wife, MT. and Mrs. John w. Scofield, Mir. and Mrs. Charles Smith, Miss Tillie Schollhorn, MT. and Mrs. A. A. Brown, En- and lady, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Farrell, Charles Hayes and lady, J. B. Futile and la dy and Miss Annie Peekham.
 The festivities were kept up in joyous fashion, and it was nearing daybreak when the merry company dissolved. The affair was a grand saccess despite the violent weather, many of the engineers of the city n oI,n frOv,, oil ent. Many of them came on late trains and were warmly greeted by the brotherhood. The meeting was a brotherly one, and, al- though the clawhammer coats took the place of the engineers co stume, the pride of hav- ing the occasion to aid in making it pleasant for the visitors was just as pronounced. There were engineers present from the New York Central, the Jersey Central roads and other roads centering in New York city. Mayor aaines of Newark was present at the engin- eers' ball last year. As the hours waned the dancing seemed to grow more fast and furious After the eleventh number on the programme, 8 quadrille, had been called off many of the merry worshippers of the terpsichorean art attended by their es corts partook of supper at the Grand Union Hotel. The catering was done by Barkentin, the proprietor. After splendid menu was gone through the dancers again returned to the opera house and renewed the fantastic 
 twenty-two numbers of the programme had been exhausted.
 The expense of successfully giving such a ball as that of last evening must of necessity be very heavy, amounting, it is thought, to about $500, but there will be handsome sum over and above all expenses which will go to the charity fund of the division. Last year there was less call than usual from this fund and $75 was voted taken out and do- mated to the New Haven orphan asylum.
 Following is the programme of the concert last night:
 1. Overture -Tambourdss Garde. .Tit'l
 Solo for cornet Weidenhaussr.
 3. Musical Review ...........---.. Latin
 Solo for piccolo. .Diefenbach.
 4. Gondolier and Nightingale. .Langey Q. indian marcn beHenlcK
 The programme of the dances was as fol-
 lows:
 l. Quadrille-Madelaine ..:.......... Thomas
 "The Clock" -Arnstein.
 !. Waltz-The Lagoons. ..................St Strauss
 'Le Brilliant" .Steenebrugen.
 Lanciers-Mikado ......-...............S Sullivan
 ''Sweet Evangeline". Tucker.
 A. Galop-Heigh- -Ho ...... Weingarten
 ''In the Twilight" :. Robinson.
 5. Quadrille-Plantation Ross
 "Queen of Hearts' =. .Fahrbach.